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By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2020

| Last updated on November 3, 2020


In the pages of CLASSIC TOY TRAINS magazine you’ll find information about building, operating, and enhancing toy train layouts; track plans, repair and maintenance tips, profiles of collectible postwar and prewar trains, and more.

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Features

Fun in small places

By Roger Carp

How to pack action into a 30-square-foot layout

The start of something big

By Roger Carp

A 4-by-8-foot S-gauge layout promises to grow and grow.

Lionel’s top brass for 1967

By Roger Carp

Unique boxcars from the Train Collectors Association.

Solving a 1907 mystery

By Dave McEntarfer

The American Miniature Railway Co. made toy trains for a short time.

Lionel’s overlooked modern-era warbonnets

By Michael Connor

An O gauge icon at a value price!

Take a load off, Allis

By Roger Carp

Lionel flatcars carried construction equipment.

Restoring a Lionel postwar display

By Richard Lyons

A lot of T.L.C. brings a D62 layout back to life.

An easy to make livestock pen

By Eric Beheim

Common vintage Marx fence sections keep the cattle in.

Departments

Editor’s Desk

Letters

Photo Album

News

What’s selling? | What are you buying? | Plus More!

Questions & Answers

Collectible Classics

Authenticast’s No. R-153 Junior Farm Set

Views from the Underground

Weekend Workshop

Reviews

MTH Union Pacific No. 1111 SD70ACe, Menard’s Schneider terminal

Tips, Tools, & Techniques

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